Opening the Doors to Discovery
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) creates opportunities for advancing basic science breakthroughs and developing applications for a healthier, safer, more sustainable world.
Learn MoreWelcome to the Office of Research and Innovation
The Office of Research and Innovation supports MSU’s research and creative activity by administering research funding, ensuring research integrity for both faculty and students, providing grant support services, fostering collaboration, licensing university inventions, and overseeing regulatory compliance.

Strategic Plan 2030 Research Implementation
Learn more about the Discovery, Creativity and Innovation for Excellence and Global Impact pillar of the strategic plan.

Getting Started in Research
The Research Facilitation team has developed a checklist tool to help new researchers walk through the steps of setting up their first research project.

Faculty Recognition
International faculty awards are an important component of institutional reputation, and are counted as AAU institutional indicators of excellence.

2022 Innovation Celebration
Each year, the MSU Innovation Celebration honors Michigan State University researchers who reported an invention, licensed a technology or were awarded patents during the academic year. The awards recognize outstanding achievements in technology transfer and commercialization, corporate engagement, and sponsored research.

Peering Into the Structure of Antibiotic Resistance
Michigan State University’s Ben Orlando is a structural biologist who studies some of nature’s smallest machines, sees how they are put together and figures out how they work.

Featured Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
The EEB's work spans a breathtaking swath of life, across the globe from molecules to the biosphere. Studying and teaching biodiversity's origins and maintenance, the program is inspired by the diverse community we make.
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Improving the Health and Resilience of our Land, Livestock and CommunitySince arriving to MSU in 2009, Jason Rowntree has given over 250 extension presentations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Africa and New Zealand. He has also worked to co-develop, with the Savory Institute, an Ecological Outcome Verification that is now being used on over 2 M acres of grasslands on every continent except Antarctica.